Background*

Mr. Alan L. Earhart served as Managing Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers' Silicon Valley Office from 1998 to 2001. From 1970 to June 2001, Mr. Earhart held a variety of positions with Coopers & Lybrand and its successor entity, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an accounting and consulting firm. His career spans over three decades of experience in Finance and Accounting with high-level involvement in technology companies including Ampex, Convergent Technologies, Cisco Systems, ... Legato, Varian and Polycom. He began his career as a Certified Public Accountant in 1970 with Coopers & Lybrand's San Francisco office, where he steadily progressed to becoming regional Managing Partner and served as the Chair of Coopers & Lybrand's National Venture Capital Industry Group. Mr. Earhart has been an Independent Director of Rovi Corporation since May 2, 2008 and NetApp, Inc., since December 2004. He has been a Director of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. since February 10, 2009. Mr. Earhart served as an Independent Consultant of Quantum Corporation, Hard Disk Drive Group since 2001. He served as a Director of Monolithic Power Systems Inc. since September 2004; Foundry Networks Inc., since October 2003; Quantum Corp. from 2003 to December 31, 2007 and Quantum Corporation, Hard Disk Drive Group. He served as a Director of NetScreen Technologies Inc., since December 2002. Mr. Earhart holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the University of Oregon.

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